May 2016
Welcome
to episode 28 of See Hear Podcast.
It's
Bernie's selection this month, and he's gone for a film based on a
song. It's the Arthur Penn-directed "Alice's Restaurant"
based on the song of the same name by Arlo Guthrie.
The
original song / monologue was a funny (allegedly true) tale about how
Arlo gets arrested for dumping garbage away from the city dump and
then gets rejected from being drafted to fight in the Vietnam war.
He's not moral enough to kill people because of his "criminal
record" as a litterbug.
The
film tells this tale, but (by necessity) fleshes out the story into
an episodic series of events concerning Arlo, his friends Ray and
Alice, the hippies they become surrogate parents to, and conservative
America at war with itself as well as being at war on the world
stage.
The
music connection? Well it is based on a song, but music was a huge
part of the counter culture of the period. Arlo is caught up in the
values and the music of his predecessors as well as his
contemporaries. Hear what Bernie, Tim and Maurice thought.
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